Open iT

Open iT is an enterprise software license metering, monitoring, and IT asset optimization platform engineered specifically for complex, high-cost technical software in engineering, oil and gas, automotive, aerospace, and EDA industries. While standard SAM tools monitor common office productivity licenses, they lack the capability to meter expensive concurrent, floating, token-based, and named-user licenses from vendors like MATLAB, Autodesk, Schlumberger, Ansys, and Cadence. Open iT solves this challenge by collecting real-time usage data directly from license managers (such as FlexNet, LUM, and DSLS) and operating system polling daemons. The platform goes beyond measuring merely whether a license is checked out: it measures actual keyboard, mouse, CPU, and I/O activity to distinguish active software use from inactive idling, where employees leave expensive applications checked out overnight. Open iT provides automated license harvesting features that gracefully release idle licenses back into the shared pool, maximizing license availability and preventing unnecessary additional purchases. With comprehensive historical reporting and chargeback analytics, Open iT enables IT leaders to allocate software costs accurately across project divisions, negotiate vendor contracts with factual usage data, and reduce specialized software licensing expenditures.